Quotes - Bethany (bookwormbet) (Staten Island, NY) Showing 1-30 of 156

#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#2

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

18020 likes

#3

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20579 likes

#4

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

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#5

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

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#6

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

tags: adaptation, emma, movie-quote, mr-knightley

1876 likes

#7

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

5531 likes

#8

“Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth

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#9

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4131 likes

#10

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul

2417 likes

#11

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
― Charlotte Bronte

tags: inspirational

467 likes

#12

“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

tags: friendship

143 likes

#13

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
― Charlotte Bronte

168 likes

#14

“The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Hope

74 likes

#15

“I saw power, yet meekness, forcefulness, yet gentleness, discipline, yet compassion. I had never seen eyes like His.”
― Chuck Black

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#16

“If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Dawn

tags: christian, chuck-black, kingdom-s-dawn, the-kingdom-series

52 likes

#17

“He knew that the King was so much bigger than the circumstances they faced.”
― Chuck Black, Kingdom's Hope

tags: chuck-black, kingdom-s-hope

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#18

“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”
― Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly

287 likes

#19

“Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.”
― Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly

247 likes

#20

“When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.”
― Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly

200 likes

#21

“Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free. ”
― Janette Oke

tags: freedom, janette-oke, servants

80 likes

#22

“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
― Janette Oke, A Searching Heart

tags: inspirational

46 likes

#23

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”
― Janette Oke

66 likes

#24

“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.”
― Janette Oke

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#25

“She thanked God that life was not always winter, that spring always came at last to chase away the cold and heaviness, and to release one to warmth and movement again.”
― Janette Oke, Love's Long Journey

33 likes

#26

“Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

56 likes

#27

“Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.”
― Lynn Austin, Candle in the Darkness

tags: bushel, faith, inspirational, trust, trusting-god

125 likes

#28

“That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”
― Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek

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#29

“You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn’t need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.”
― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:

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#30

“Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.”
― Lynn Austin (Author)

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